January 2012
17 posts
“April 19, 1955
Dear Mr. Calt:
On March 22nd you wrote to me asking for some...”
– David Ogilvy - I am a lousy copywriter
He’s an inspiration.
“A wonderful little story about five-year-old Albert Einstein, who was very slow...”
– New – a cultural history and future of neophilia, our compulsive need for novelty and change. (via taylorlorenz)
“As we mark the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we must remember that this...”
– President Obama’s statement on the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (via barackobama)
“A single guy who’s barely making rent saying he doesn’t want kids is like a...”
– I Don’t Think I Want Kids
Hahahaha can’t stop picturing a horse with an iPad. Thanks for sharing, Kim.
“The system is hidebound, expensive and elitist, they say. Peer review can take...”
– Cracking open the scientific process in NYT
Great article on the idea of open science
“Great love affairs start with Champagne.”
– Honore de Balzac (via taylorlorenz)
“There is no debate here. It’s just scientists versus non-scientists. And since...”
– Bill Maher, on climate change: Live With All (via cocknbull)
It’s as simple as that folks.
(via wespeakfortheearth)
“Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting...”
– Franz Kakfa, Aphorisms (1918). (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
Thanks Kakfa. You make me feel better about my (lack of) new year’s resolutions.
I spend a lot of time thinking about home and what it means to me. Having moved several times in the last 4 years, I interchange the word home with whatever – and whomever – I’m missing at the moment. And it certainly felt like I was home when I went back to Colorado for the holidays. I spent the week in a state of euphoria with family and the friends who’ve become my family over the years. But as...
